Award-winning journalist, writer, and editor Felipe Restrepo Pombo (Colombia), will engage in a personal conversation where we’ll explore his personal background, his first steps into journalism, his coverage in Latin America, and his work as a non-fiction editor in the region.
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Restrepo was selected as one of the best young Latin American authors of the decade by the Hay Festival. He has published nine books, including two novels, and he has directed the Latin American magazine Gatopardo for the past six years.
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Currently, he is the managing editor for Crónicas Collection from Editorial Anagrama (Spain, Latin America), the present Coordinator and Juror for the Anagrama Journalism Award, Editor in Chief for media outlets Pictoline, and Local (Colombia, and Mexico), and Country Manager for media corporation Capital Digital.
Presented by the Liberal Studies Department at New School for Social Research, the University Student Senate, and Al Sur: Latin American Studies Project.
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Facundo Vega is an assistant professor of philosophy at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile, and a research scientist at CONICET and the FU Berlin. He received his PhD from Cornell University. He is currently completing his first book, titled Ordinary Matters: The Political after Martin Heidegger. Vega's second book project is titled The Politics of Beginnings: Hannah Arendt Today. His scholarly articles have appeared in, among other venues, Philosophy Today, The European Legacy, Cahier de L’Herne, and diacritics.
